Hishida Shunso was the pseudonym of a Japanese painter from the Meji period. Shunso was born in 1874 and hailed from what is now part of Iida city in Nagano Prefecture. Moved to Tokoyo to study under Kano school artists Yuki Masaaki. Shunso studied in Tokyo Bijustu Gakko (the forerunner of the Toyo National University of Fine Artes and Music). He was also one of Okanura Tenshin’s pupils and played a role in the Meiji innovation of Nihonga.

Takeuchi Seiho was the pseudonym of a Japanese painter of the nihonga genre, active from the Meiji through the early Showa period. One of the founders of nihonga and was regarded as master of the prewar Kyoto circle of painters.

Seiho was born in Kyoto taught in the disciple Kono Bairei of the Maruyama-Shijo school of traditional painting as a child. In 1882, two of his works received awards at the Naikoku Kaiga Kyoshinkai (Domestic Painting Competition).

During the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1990, he toured Europe, where he studied Western art. After returning to Japan he established a unique style, combining the realist techniques of the traditional Japanese Maruyama-Shijo school with Western forms of realism borrowed from the techniques of Turner and Corot.

Loyiso Mkize hails from Butterworth, South Africa and has his bachelors degree in graphic design from Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Loyiso Mkize has worked several art spaces throughout Africa, United State and United Kingdom.

Loyiso Mkize hails from Butterworth, South Africa and has his bachelors degree in graphic design from Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Loyiso Mkize has worked several art spaces throughout Africa, United State and United Kingdom.

For those that put their lives on the line for honor, duty and loyalty, through all the trials, setbacks, and triumphs, even though no words are said know that you are the northern star that guides them through the tempest and back to the arms of loved ones.

This is a tribute to loved ones that keep everything together during those long periods away, worrying and hoping knowing fully well the sacrifice to be paid, waiting patiently with open arms for their heroes to come back home.

Emeka Echeruo

I love sports, football which I refuse to call soccer, and the outdoor especially walks in park. Software development is my passion, there is a beauty in creating something out of nothing but algebra that ends up becomes a part of a persons daily life. I love kids, dogs, nightlife and art because it finds you and moves you emotionally!